WeekInTime Issue 111: The Manchurian Incident

Japan invades Manchuria in 1931

There are times when you realize that a situation has really gotten away from you. When it turns out that you were never really the one in control. That’s what the League of Nations realized during the lead up to World War II, as the Japanese military plunged its country headlong into international condemnation. This week in time, the Japanese military …